HAUNTED WASHINGTON

THE
HAUNTED WHITE HOUSE

According to the Gallup Poll
News Service, about 32 percent of Americans believe in ghosts, haunted houses,
ghosts, communication with the dead and evil witches. So it comes almost as no surprise that the
national house of the people, the White House, and our capitol, would be seeped
in ghost tales. Indeed, Washington DC
and the surrounding area the site of a vast number of reportedly haunted
locations ranging from battle fields to dueling ground and assassinations.

Of all these places, the White
House is said to be the most haunted location of them all. In fact, the White House is on the list of
Time Magazine’s Top Ten Haunted Places, and on the New York Daily News List of
the Most Haunted Places on Earth. Yet
the White House (Originally, the White house was known as The Presidential
Palace. President Theodore Roosevelt
would officially call it the White House in 1901, although the name had been
informally used before.) has never been investigated by a paranormal group and
it’s highly unlikely that it ever will be.

But still the lists of
important and reliable people who have reported unexplainable footsteps,
knocks, slamming doors, barking dogs, and cold chills in the White House is
impressive. President Harry Truman once wrote to his wife: ‘I sit here in this
old house, all the while listening to the ghosts walk up and down the hallway.
At 4 o’clock I was awakened by three distinct knocks on my bedroom door. No one
there. Damned place is haunted, sure as shootin’’

President Eisenhower’s
no-nonsense press secretary James Hagerty said that he always sensed presence
of Lincoln’s Ghost walking the White House halls and Bill Clinton’s press
secretary, Mike McCurry believed the house is haunted overall.

Former first lady Hilary Clinton said ‘There
is something about the house at night that you just feel like you are summoning
up the spirits of all the people who have lived there and worked there and
walked through the halls there…..It’s neat, it can be a little creepy. You know, they think there’s a ghost there. It
is a big old house and when the lights are out it is dark and quiet and any
movement at all catches your attention.’

Most recently, First Lady
Michelle Obama said that her husband was awakened from a sound sleep in the
middle of the night after hearing what she called strange sounds in the
hall. She also said that family members
and friends had reported the unusual sensation of someone or something gnawing
or chewing on their feet.